CHAP 11 QUIZ 3

 The Netherlands and Belgium have the highest ______________ densities, followed by the United Kingdom. Rural population densities are much lower than those of cities.

Many countries in Northwestern Europe have one or more official _____________. Most people in the region speak languages that are part of the Indo-European language family, including German and French.

The population is 98 to 100 percent literate, and laws in each country provide for the education of children through ____________ school.

___________________, which focused on the realistic depiction of everyday life, became prominent in the mid-1800s.

mong the top industries (in NW EUROPE) are international banking and _________________.

Transportation __________________ in Northwestern Europe includes highways, high-speed railroads, waterways, and airline routes.

Many Northwestern European countries have made the switch from ______ to natural gas, wind, and solar collections for energy production.

Europe’s large deposits of coal and iron ore, especially in the Ruhr and the Middle Rhine districts in Germany and the Lorraine-Saar district in France, sparked the growth of __________________ —the manufacture of machinery and industrial equipment.

In the early 1800s, ___________________ was embodied in the works of Lord Byron and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Women also find opportunities in political participation. They were generally granted ______________(the right to vote) before women in the United States and other areas of the world.